Hot Topics/Debates Half a million households cancelled BBC licence fee last year

[Catsmother]

Half a million households cancelled their licence fee last year as the BBCstruggled to connect with younger audiences drifting away to Netflix and YouTube.

The stark extent of the BBC’s challenges are set out in the corporation’s annual report, which shows the total number of British households paying the £169.50 licence fee fell to 23.9 million, suggesting a growing number of people feel able to go without BBC services.


The fall has hit the BBC’s income at a time when its finances were already struggling owing to a decade of funding cuts and high inflation.

The BBC also revealed the large salaries paid to some of its biggest stars, with Gary Lineker once again topping the list on £1.35m a year. The Match of the Day host’s contract is due to run out next year, amid speculation over whether he will remain after a long-running series of public clashes with the corporation that culminated in a staff mutiny last year.

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BBC should scrap the license all together. mostly rubbish anyway. Gary Lineker earning an insane amount of money whilst lots of people struggle to pay for a license.

 

[MamaFrankie]

Haven't had a television since 2012. Can't afford the licence and don't watch it anyway as the programmes cater to the lowest common denominator with stupid reality trash, banal gameshows and celebrities hogging programmes which were once the domain of the general public. Celebrity this, All Star that, it's ridiculous. And there are too many celebrities I can't stand.